RSPB News
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Featured News
Act Swiftly to save incredible bird
Wednesday 13 February 2019 by Jamie Wyver
Making new homes for swifts. Swifts are incredible birds - but they're in trouble. Find out how you can help.
Go loco for cocoa and save a rainforest
Wednesday 23 January 2019 by Vanessa Amaral-Rogers
Eat chocolate, save a rainforest
Bird-friendly coffee wins ethical award top spot
Monday 7 January 2019 by Vanessa Amaral-Rogers
Bird & Wild coffee have been awarded Best Buy in Ethical Consumer’s latest review into coffee.
A fond farewell to our charismatic colleague Roy
Monday 26 November 2018 by Annabel Rushton
A fond farewell to our charismatic colleague Roy Taylor.
Latest blog posts
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Blog Post: Buzzard found shot and poisoned in East Yorkshire
Some birds are devastatingly unlucky. Today (20/2/2019) Humberside Police issued a press release about a dead buzzard found poisoned in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The bird also had a nasty head wound, still fresh at the time it was picked up. What...
Posted 20/02/2019 by Jenny Shelton -
Blog Post: Threats to Egyptian Vultures in a key wintering area in Ethiopia
Blog post by Steffen Oppel , Senior Conservation Scientist, RSPB Centre for Conservation Science In October 2018, an Egyptian Vulture that had migrated from Bulgaria to winter in Ethiopia, died under unknown circumstances in Afar province, eastern Et...
Posted 20/02/2019 by Chiara Ceci -
Blog Post: Ravens found poisoned on farmland
This press release has just gone out regionally: West Mercia Police undertook an investigation after ten dead ravens, a dead crow and parts of a dead lamb were found close together on farmland near Vron Woods, Beguildy on the Wales/Shropshire border....
Posted 19/02/2019 by Jenny Shelton -
Blog Post: Why close co-operation with the European Union is safer for nature
Birds and other migratory wildlife do not respect borders, and the challenges facing nature are too big to be solved by any one country alone. Ever since tackling the global plumage trade in the nineteenth century, the RSPB has been committed to comp...
Posted 18/02/2019 by MartinHarper
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